Team set up to locate missing radioactive device

SHAH ALAM: THE police and Atomic Energy Licensing Board (AELB) have activated a team to locate a 23kg Radioactive Dispersal Device (RDD), which has been missing since Aug 10.

The team will work round the clock and one of its main focus is on the search for the RDD, an industrial radiography equipment, which contains isotope Iridium-192, and emits beta and gamma radiation as it decays during its estimated half life of 73 days.

Selangor police chief Datuk Mazlan Mansor said his men had yet to obtain new leads. “We have yet to receive any information that would point to the possibility of the device being taken out of Selangor,” said Mazlan after the Selangor police contingent level Ibadah Qurban Perdana programme at Surau Khalid Al-Walid here yesterday.